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Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man

Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man


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In Tendings, Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture's resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought. Analyzing writing and performances by Maryse Conde, Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English, Starhawk, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and others, Snaza introduces his theory of tending as a concept that links ontology, attunement, care, and anticipatory action to explore how worlds persist through everyday acts of participation. In contrast to the universalizing presuppositions of the enlightenment, Snaza shows how certain feminist occult and esoteric practices constitute what he calls an endarkenment that embraces decolonial spiritual knowledge. Highlighting how endarkenment practices challenge universal presumptions and reject the racializing and colonialist mission of enlightenment modernity, Snaza demonstrates the ways esoterism affirms a pluriversal worldview that reimagines what it means to live in a more-than-human world.



Table of Contents:
Preface. In the Cards  vii
Introduction. Tending Endarkenment Esoterisms  1
1. “What Is a Witch?” Tituba’s Subjunctive Challenge  25
2. Feeling Subjunctive Worlds: Reading Second-Wave Feminist and Gay Liberationist Histories of Witchcraft  51
3. Man’s Ruin: Hearing Divide and Dissolve  81
4. Ceremony: Participation and Endarkenment Study  100
Conclusion. On Deictic Participation in/as Tending  133
Acknowledgments  143
Notes  147
References  177
Index  193

About the Author :
Nathan Snaza is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Richmond and author of Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism, also published by Duke University Press.

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“Grappling with the troubling investments of feminist and queer esoterisms in colonialist grammars of enlightenment, Snaza moves us far beyond mere critique of such investments. Tendings beautifully makes the case for the radical importance of transformative, anti-enlightenment ritual in the making of a pluriverse where more-than-human flourishing is possible.” - Hil Malatino, author of (Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad) “I think of this book as a highly discursive spell, a call across generations to show up for our Wynterian, AnzaldÚan, Lordean assignment, to show up in and as the worlds enlightenment says we were never supposed to imagine.” - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of (Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781478025849
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 530 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1478025840
  • Publisher Date: 16 Feb 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Sub Title: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man
  • Width: 152 mm


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